Hand garden-cultivating implement.



PATENTED AUG. 13, .190'7.

M. L. GARRAWAY. HAND GARDEN GULTIVATING IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED 15153.22, 1907.

MARSHALL L. OARRAWAY, OF MoNEIL, ARKANSAS.

HAND GARDEN-CULTIVATING IMPLEMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 13, 1907.

Application filed March 22, 1907- Serial No. 363,897-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARSHALL L. GARRAWAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at McNeil, in the county of Columbia and State of Arkansas, have invented a new and useful Hand Garden-Cultivating Implement, of which the following is a specification;

The invention relates to a hand garden-cultivating implement.

The object of the present invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive and efficient hand implement for garden use, having a reversible blade adapted to be securely clamped in either position by a single fastening device, whereby the blade may be quickly changed from one position to the other.

A further object of the invention is to provide a hand garden implement of this kind, having a blade adapted for opening drills and for covering seed, without changing the position of the blade on the shank to which it is attached.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in the construction and novel combination of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended; it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details of construction, within the scope of the claims, may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawing:-Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hand garden cultivating implement, constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a perspective view, showing another form of blade applied to the shank.

Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawing.

1 designates a longitudinally curved blade, having a straight cutting edge 2 at one end, and provided at the other end with a tapered soil-engaging portion 3, which is particularly adapted for opening drills for seed. The side edges 4, which extend from the tapered end of the blade to the straight cutting edge 2, are parallel and the implement is adapted to be turned to arrange the blade in substantially a horizontal position, with one of the curved side edges at the bottom. The blade may then be effectually employed for covering the seed, as it presents a front concave face to the soil. Also, the curvature of the blade enables the latter to readily enter the soil, which will be left well pulverized by the implement.

The curvature of the blade, besides enabling the implement to be effectually employed for covering seed, also cooperates with an eccentrically curved portion 5 of a shank 6, which is provided with a straight inner portion 7. The arcs of the curved portions of the shank and the blade intersect, and when the blade is fitted against the curved portion of the shank, the latter bears against the rear face of the blade at the inner end thereof and also near the center of the same, the intermediate portions of the shank and the blade between the contacting portions being spaced apart before the application of pressure to the same, whereby the blade may be securely fastened to the shank by a single bolt 8, located between the contacting portions of the blade and the shank and adapted to draw the inner end of the blade tightly against the shank. The frictional engagement of the inner end of the blade and the shank will effectually prevent the blade from turning on the bolt. The bolt is provided with a nut 9, located at the rear face of the shank, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawing. The single bolt, which is provided in its head with a groove 8 to receive a screw driver or other tool, may be readily loosened by unscrewing the nut to permit the blade to be turned end for end, and either end of the blade is adapted to frictionally engage the shank.

The straight portion of the shank is secured by bolts 10 to a handle 11, having a flat face 12 to receive the shank. The shank is also adapted to receive a curved hoe blade 13, having straight cutting edges 14 at its inner and outer ends, and adapted to be reversed,

when the one in use becomes dull. The curved hoe blade is secured to the shank by a single bolt 15, and the hand garden implement may be equipped with both forms of blades, so that one may be substituted for the other, or they may be manufactured with either form of blade.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'.--

A hand garden cultivating implement comprising a handle, a shank consisting of a straight inner portion extending along and secured to the handle, and a curved resilient outer portion extending downwardly from the handle and provided at its outer end with'a perforation, a curved resilient blade fitting against the curved portion of the shank, the curved portion of the shank being eccentric with relation to that of the blade and intersecting the same at the inner end of the blade and at a point intermediate of the ends thereof to provide two contacting points to space the blade and the shank from each other between the said contacting points, and a single adjustable fastening device piercing the blade and the shank thereof and arranged to hold the inner end of the blade in frictional engagement with the shank and also maintaining the outer end of the curved portion of the shank in frictional engagement with the blade, whereby the blade is prevented from turning on the fastening device.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

MARSHALL L. CARRAWAY.

Witnesses T. E. SOUTER, WILLIAM A. KELLEY. 

